Matt Drury Finally Lands the Perfect Shot | 100% Wild Podcast Ep. 447 

Matt opens up about coming home from Idaho after skimming a bull's back and how it tanked his confidence, then walks through the exact moves that put a mature Missouri buck on the ground: ditching minerals, building and maintaining DIY water holes, reading an east/southeast wind with nasty thermals (and a neighbor 90 yards away), and leveraging a pre-built mock scrape for a 25-yard heart shot. Tim shares his own early-season chess match, why open clover plots can feel "unsafe," and how focusing on water becomes a legal high-value draw in warm spells. 

Timestamps:

0:01 Matt: "I was ready to quit"
0:26 Cold open banter + Orange Fury shout
1:16 Tim's early-season update: playing cat-and-mouse with "Hulk"
2:14 Self-filming close call at 18 yards
3:43 Why some clover plots go dead + security discussion
3:54 Missouri strategy shift: water holes (Rubbermaid tote → tarp pit)
5:26 Young bucks "dog-bowl" the water + scaling up the hole
6:10 Big deer hits the new water the same night
7:12 Matt finally connects: "I killed a deer with my bow"
7:35 Idaho elk recap: yardage miss and the mental hit
10:15 Herd bull appears; third draw in five minutes
11:13 No-range moment → over-the-back miss explained
12:28 Processing failure, camp vibes, and redemption hunger
15:09 Resetting expectations for Missouri
16:34 The hit list returns: Rib Cage and Chief
18:13 Chief's unique dagger G1; Rib Cage turns mainframe 10
19:22 Using DeerCast Past + camera tags to pick sits
20:04 Sept 30 sit: Rib Cage at 25 but too dark to shoot
23:28 Cold front timing: second day looks best
24:06 Choosing family first (son's last baseball game) while Chief daylighted
25:26 Next evening setup + neighbor in the fence-line stand
27:21 Wind vs. thermals and sealing the blind
28:58 Deer react to neighbor's thermals; how the east-side access saves the night
29:46 Chief appears, surveys the plot, and drifts to the scrape
30:43 The tree-coin scrape that finally worked (cutting a "pre-hit" branch + pee start)
31:58 Opening the vertical window with a doe/fawns at spitting distance
32:29 Quarter-away at 25 → heart shot; 50–75-yard crash
33:01 Slowing down the shot sequence after Idaho
35:07 Why instinctive at 25 sometimes hits best
35:20 Gear: new Mathews (65#), ~294 fps; sight light advantage in blinds
36:25 Broadhead: NAP Killzone 2.3 two-blade; entry/exit and blood trail
37:42 Odd "oily" blood segments along a very strong trail
39:10 Dragging luck: buck dies right at the edge of the nasty stuff
40:14 The fence-line neighbor dilemma and wishing for coordination
41:44 Community note to the neighbor + property line realities
42:09 Family & team reactions; why one arrow changes the whole fall

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